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Not every telling photo is accurate; not every accurate photo is telling. This one, which appears to be two trained police dogs restraining a Chicago cop in riot gear from attacking protesters, tells a more interesting story than the cops-punch-protesters headline image of the protest.

A little technical understanding works wonders in court; even a very little bit, like knowing the difference between an IP address and a person, or that WLANs, poaching, wardriving and bad geolocation make accusations based on IP more random than righteous

Once it was routine for Microsoft to dictate what applications or technology customers or other vendors had to use if they didn't want the big dog to bite. Now it's just ridiculous. No FireFox, Chrome or Safari on the ARM version of Windows 8? For how long, do you think?

The Pirate Bay is teaming up with Swedish researchers who specialize in copyright-, file-sharing and enforcement on survey designed to provide more objective data than that supplied by RIAA and MPAA to help counter rabid anti-piracy plunder-and-pillage copyright enforcement rules.

Google's Wi-Fi snooping didn't break federal wiretap laws because StreetView cars weren't in range long enough. It did cover up like Watergate afterward, though, refusing to let employees testify, release emails or post FCC report to avoid admitting purposeful privacy invasion

Mitt Romney's new viral video comes from a 2007 speech in which he promised to require filters on every new computer to block Internet pr0n. The video may be misleading. Romney opposed SOPA, has no official position on CISPA and hasn't gone into pron much recently.

In its Terms of Service Google is probably trying to reserve the right to change the format of your files so you can get them using a PC, phone or tab. It probably doesn't want co-ownership of your copyright to the content, but that's what its new Terms require.

YouTube series FPSRussia entertains by executing Xboxes and a firing off lots of cool things that go 'boom.' The latest shows how adding a submachine gun to a quad-rotor drone creates a manikin-killing, car-destroying death machine your crazy neighbor could build with no trouble.

Also: Instagram malware adds insult to hipster injury.

Eight men have been arrested on charges they ran a network called the Farmer's Market that provided an order-and-fulfillment service for the international sale of LSD, ketamine and other serious drugs, while hiding everyone's identities using the free, friendly TOR proxy network.

Hector 'Sabu" Monsegur, 28, the LulzSec leader who spent months collecting evidence to help the FBI arrest LulzSec and Anonymous contacts said he was too afraid of threats on his life to appear at court to answer charge of impersonating a federal agent.

The four big U.S. cell carriers announced this morning they are joining the FCC and local chiefs of police to launch an anti-theft program that will brick any cell phone stolen in the U.S., permanently, using databases and capabilities carriers already own. It will start in six months.